Paved Paradise How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

eBook - 2023

Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining." —The Los Angeles TimesAn entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spotParking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a shocking number of Americans kill one another over parking spots, and we routinely do ri­dicul...ous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Henry Grabar
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ASINB0B9657N8R
Release Date5/9/2023
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ISBN9781984881144
Release Date5/9/2023